The new Battlefields expansion for Reiner Knizia's acclaimed Lord of the Rings board game focuses on the deadly combats that the Fellowship must survive on its quest to destroy the One Ring. Now in addition to guiding the Fellowship through its many perils, the players also help to hinder or defeat Sauron's powerful armies, because the farther enemies march on the battlefield board, the more destruction they cause and the closer Sauron comes to recovering the One Ring!
The new Battlefields expansion for Reiner Knizia's acclaimed Lord of the Rings board game focuses on the deadly combats that the Fellowship must survive on its quest to destroy the One Ring. Now in addition to guiding the Fellowship through its many perils, the players also help to hinder or defeat Sauron's powerful armies, because the farther enemies march on the battlefield board, the more destruction they cause and the closer Sauron comes to recovering the One Ring!
On 15 Oct 2007, I played Lord of the Rings with the Battlefields expansion with Han. Lord of the Rings has always been one of my favourite games. I have bought all 3 expansions to it, Friends e Foes, Sauron and Battlefields, and I have played Friends i Foes and Battlefields. This was my 2nd time playing Battlefields, and 1st time for Han. My first time was with Michelle, and we lost that game.
Lord of the Rings is a cooperative game, where the players, taking the roles of hobbits, try to go through various challenges in order to reach Mount Doom to destroy the evil One Ring. Sometimes this game can be thought of as bad things keep happening to you, and you are just trying to survive to the end. Sounds like self-torture, doesn't it? The Battlefields expansion adds a battlefield (roll eyes) element. The battlefield is basically a flowchart. Enemies will appear on it, and move following the arrows on it, and cause bad things to happen to you. You can prevent / mitigate these bad things by sending your fellowship members (Gandalf, Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Boromir) to the battlefield to fight / stop these enemies. In a way, now we finally have the full fellowship appearing as individual pieces - the four hobbits, and the five other fellowship members.
